Report of the Department of Health, the City of New York. 1871Department of Health, 1872 |
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ABSTRACT OF DEATHS avenue births Board of Health Bright's Disease buildings Bureau CAUSES OF DEATH Cellars and basements cent Cholera City Sanitary Inspector cleanliness complaints connection CONSOLIDATED ABSTRACT contagious disease Diarrhoeal Diphtheria disinfected district drains East ENDING DECEMBER 31ST epidemic Erysipelas fatal filthy floor Foundling Hospital gutters Health Department Health Inspector heat Hospital improvement inspection Ireland July labor large number Light clouds marriages Measles Meningitis MONTHS ENDING DECEMBER NATIVITY nuisance number of deaths occupation occurred Paris Green past patient persons Phthisis physicians pipe poison population portion Precinct Station Private dwellings privy vault quarter Rain Randall's Island removed repaired River sanitary condition Scarlatina sewerage Sexes sickness small-pox Stables street cleaning TABLE temperature tenement houses Thunder shower tion total mortality Total number TWELVE MONTHS ENDING Typhoid Fever Typhus Fever vaccination ventilation Ward Ward's Island West Whole number XIV.-Continued yard York ZYMOTIC DISEASES
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Page 338 - A tenement house within the meaning of this article shall be taken to mean and include every house, building or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the home or residence of more than three families living independently of one another and doing their cooking upon the premises; or by more than two families upon a floor so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies or some of them.
Page 339 - The lewd, but pale and sickly young women, scarce decent in their ragged attire, were impudent, and scattered everywhere in the crowd. But what numbers of these poorer classes are deformed, what numbers are made hideous by self-neglect and infirmity...
Page 338 - A clean, fresh, and wellordered house exercises over its inmates a moral no less than a physical influence and has a direct tendency to make the members of the family sober, peaceable, and considerate of the feelings and happiness of each other...
Page 336 - ... risk that the disease will spread to persons who nurse and otherwise closely attend upon the sick.
Page 316 - That every physician shall report to the Sanitary Bureau, in writing, every person having a contagious disease (and the state of his or her disease, and his or her place of dwelling and name, if known) which such physician has prescribed for or attended for the first time since having such a contagious disease, during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours...
Page 339 - And female forms and features are made so frightful by sin, squalor, and debasement ! To walk the streets as we walked them, in those hours of conflagration and riot, was like witnessing the day of judgment, with every wicked thing revealed, every sin and sorrow blazingly glared upon, every hidden abomination laid before hell's expectant fire.
Page 316 - ... a contagious disease, during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours ; but not more than two reports shall be required in one week concerning the same person ; but every attending or practising physician thereat must, at his peril, see that such report is or has been made by some attending physician.
Page 338 - A tenement house within the meaning of this act shall be taken to mean and include every house, building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the home or residence of three families or more living independently of each other, and doing their cooking upon the premises...
Page 319 - Patients. — The patient should be placed in a separate room, and no person except the physician, nurse, or mother, allowed to enter the room, or to touch the bedding or clothing used in the sick-room, until they have been thoroughly disinfected.
Page 361 - The blood was fluid. The whole of the surface of the brain was intensely congested, the veins and sinuses being gorged with very fluid blood, though not entirely devoid of coagula. On section of the brain little points of blood netted out everywhere. The ventricles were nearly dry. Consistence of brain natural. No exudation or purulent matter found.